Irresponsible parking leaves car owners helpless

KK Moidu
IMPERFECT parking of vehicles by some drivers cause problems for many, who are already fed up with fewer parking space. Wrong parking is also a finable offense. Yet careless drivers park their vehicles close to other vehicles without leaving enough space for the driver to get into his parked car.
Although authorities have marked the paid parking and free parking areas with enough space for each car, a few drivers don't pay any attention to these stipulations, especially in the free parking areas.
If the vehicles are parked wrongly in the paid parking zone the authorities will impose fines on the violators. But the free parking areas are not monitored regularly and without any complaints chances of fines are rare.
Thomas Sebastian, an Indian national working as a marketing executive in a private company said, "several times I have encountered the problem of getting into my car because of irresponsible parking of vehicles close to my car. If it happens in the daytime, I could wait for the driver hoping that he would be back after a while. It can be worse at night that one cannot even wait hoping for the driver's return."
However, Thomas solves the problem by entering the car through the other door.
Sadanandan, a Sharjah resident working in Dubai says, while coming back after the work he finds most of the parking spaces are occupied and some cars are parked wrongly, in parallel, perpendicular or in angle. These erroneous way of parking often occupies space for two vehicles. "I don't understand what kind of pleasure they get from this wrong doing, which gives only troubles to others," Sadanandan says.
He also said some two-wheelers also misuse parking spaces by parking motorcycles in the centre of the parking boxes.
The situation in open grounds are also not any better.
Even when enough parking spaces are available, some drivers park their cars blocking the entry itself.
Some others park their cars without leaving space for the other parked cars to come out.
Irresponsible parking behind parked vehicles is common in Sharjah. Most of the drivers have often faced this problem.
A Sharjah resident working as a nurse in a hospital in Dubai said, seeing a car parked behind her vehicle at 5am one day literally shocked her. She could not take her car and had to hire a taxi to reach her working place on time. MM Kutty, a resident of Al Nahda area, working in Dubai said, many times he found difficulty in taking out his car from the parking because of other vehicles parked behind his car.
Although the public can inform the police if any vehicle is found wrongly parked, blocking the movement of the car in front, many don't use the facility for fear of inviting the wrath of the offender.